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The Struggle to Release Nazneen
I was constantly getting push back about going public with this. The most frustrating bit was that none of the foreign secretaries would acknowledge the link between the debt and Nazneen's imprisonment. They would constantly say it has nothing to do with that, whereas Nazneen had been told by the people who had captured her that this is the reason we're holding you. We're holding you because your country won't pay the 400 million pound and effectively your hostage. And they would not acknowledge that the breakthrough came through when Jeremy Hunt became foreign secretary. It was the first time we're in a meeting with a foreign secretary. He acknowledged this 400 million pounds and you spoke about cross party working earlier on